People's Rally for Progress

The People's Rally for Progress (RPP) is a democratic socialist and social democratic political party in Djibouti that was founded on 4 March 1979 by Hassan Gouled Aptidon. The party was founded in Dikhil, and it became the sole legal party in October 1981. The party retained this status until September 1992, when multi-party politics was restored following a referendum. The party remained an important party, and Aptidon's successor (from 1999) Ismail Omar Guelleh continued the party's dominance of Djiboutian politics.